Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Shackles Of The NEW American Slavery ... J. D. Longstreet

Shackles Of The NEW American SlaveryA Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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Long
before the Progressives got hold of our Public Education system in the
United States, educators used to actually teach history. Those days,
however, are long, long, gone.

Knowledge of one’s history is integral to the character of a person,
of a people and of a nation. History is OUR story. It is the record of
our victories and our failures. It tells us where we have been and
tells us how we got here. It forms the basic foundation for any plans we
formulate for where we intend to go in our collective future. History
is vital.

For history to yield a true course into the future it is absolutely
necessary that the records be absolutely complete. That means history
should always tell the whole story — the good, the bad, and the ugly —
ALL of it. The records should always include those events of which we
are justly proud — and — justly ashamed. For without the entire record,
studying our history would be akin to reading a newspaper from which
articles of critical importance have been cut out and discarded.

A scholar attempting to study our history would never get the entire
story, the entire record, and any decisions made, or actions taken,
based on his study of recorded history would, of necessity, be flawed.
But the scholar would never know those decisions and actions were
indeed, flawed, because his own studies were, to put it mildly,
incomplete.
Insufficient knowledge often referred to (commonly) as ignorance, has
been the root cause of the downfall of many nations. And it now appears
it has become the root cause of the downfall of The United States of
America.

Today, America faces one of its worst crises ever. A Constitutional
Crisis looms on America’s horizon as the current government seeks to
expand its powers into areas where it has no constitutional authority.
Congress continues to cross constitutional lines and into legislative
territory held sacrosanct by the constitution for the states and/or the
people… not the federal government. Our President simply by passes
Congress, and the constitution, and makes law himself and then decrees
its existence.

Nullification laws used by the southern states prior to the American
Civil War to try to warn Congress they were “out of bounds” are being
dusted off and returned to use by several states while many other states
are actively considering them.

How did we come to this?

National Ignorance.

I contend that had it not been for ignorance of the constitution,
ignorance of America’s collective history, ignorance of the history of
western civilization, the current government of the US would not be in
power today. There is simply no way, short of rebellion, for a
leadership so bent on transforming America from a constitutional
republic into a socialist/communist nation, to have ever come to power.

Americans are a “breed apart.” Unlike our European cousins we tend
to abhor government intrusion and intervention in our lives. We fought a
war against a world superpower when we were only 13 colonies stuck on
the eastern seaboard of a vast mostly unknown, and certainly
un-conquered, continent, to break free from the shackles of a government
which resembles, far too closely, the government we have today in our
nation’s capital. It is a vital part of our story — of our history.

But ignorance has taken a toll, a horrible toll, on America. A
generation, or more, of Americans do not know who they are. They don’t
know that Americans fought a war to free themselves from a tyrannical
government much like the one currently ruling over us today in
Washington, DC. Too, they are ignorant of their rights, which were
granted by God and the US Constitution. It is THIS ignorance that has
brought America to the precipice to which she desperately clings today.

America’s current national leadership is only the tip of an iceberg.
It is just the tip a movement that has been toiling, for nearly a
century, behind the scenes to bring about this transformation of America
into some sort of collectivist state, a socialist/communist state, if
you will. If they are finally successful they will install an all
powerful central government which will impose it’s will on every
American at a whim. Representative government will be gone. “Consent
of the Governed” will have no meaning, whatsoever. It will,
effectively, re-impose slavery in America – and this time – we will ALL
be slaves.

Even today the powerful Obama Administration has extended its
tentacles into practically every aspect of our lives. What is truly
frightening, however, is this: Now that Obamacare is law; bonds have
been forged that will enslave every American and tether us to the
government as slaves forever.

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